Title Envy

Sometimes movie titles crop up in the strangest places. In the news today, Reuters offers an interview with the president of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who said that the government of Russia wants him to begin cross-border operations in Ingushetia, a country whose president was severely wounded yesterday in a bombing:

“If they used torture and detentions (in Ingushetia) there wouldn’t be any Wahhabism, terrorism,” Kadyrov told Reuters. “It is the lack of action of certain leaders,” that is to blame.…

The rebels “don’t have any humanity,” he said. “We will take no captives, we will destroy them. As long as they exist there will be blood.”

Do you think he’s seen the movie? Speaking of which, Alan Feuer, writing in the New York Times, reported a few weeks ago on the bowling alley in the basement of the Frick Collection, the former home of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Did Paul Thomas Anderson know?

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